Facebook confronted an intensifying crisis as political leaders in the U.S. and Europe called for inquiries into the tech giant’s handling of user data, scrutiny that sent the company’s stock to its biggest decline in four years.144

An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in the first known fatality involving an autonomous vehicle, an accident that could stir regulators to action and damage the public perception of the young industry.642

Micro Focus’s $8.8 billion merger with Hewlett Packard’s software business represented a rarity 18 months ago: a British tech company taking over a foreign one, rather than the other way around. It hasn’t worked out as planned.

Oracle Corp.’s shares sank 6.5% in late trading Monday after the company disappointed Wall Street with its guidance for cloud-computing revenue in the current quarter—the third-consecutive period it has done so.

For Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, having fended off an unwanted takeover from Broadcom just leaves more headaches, from customer disputes to unhappy shareholders to a long-shot takeover bid from his former boss.

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online—and even offline, wandering around the physical world—it doesn’t need to hear us to know what we like. Here are some ways to limit the amount of data Facebook and advertisers are collecting about you.258